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- From: M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org
- Subject: Re: Air whistles (was Scaring away meese)
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- References: <1992Nov15.070123.8912@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <13NOV92.09714113.0155@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <6km8TB2w165w@1776.COM> <1e6kasINN866@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <jwj2.70.721871267@po.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:04:45 GMT
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- In article <jwj2.70.721871267@po.CWRU.Edu>
- jwj2@po.CWRU.Edu (Jermaster) writes:
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- >In article <1e6kasINN866@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema) writes:
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- >
- >The NH air whistles were known as Hancock Air Whistles. I'm pretty sure they
- >were standard equipment on most all New Haven locomotives (with exception
- >of their ex-Virginian E33's, which still had their originial horns on all
- >the pictures I've seen).
- >
- That is I believe correct. The Hancock whistles have always been associated
- in my mind (and ears) with the New Haven's diesels, and I believe also their
- electric MUs and most if not all their RDCs. I believe that Metro North still
- has some equipment with these whistles or at least did until recently. For one
- thing, I think the RDCs used until recently in the Suffern-Port Jervis shuttle
- service had them.
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